Mark Rothko, the flag and Turkey's red future
Kaya Genc
The poster for Sunday's anti-coup rally in Istanbul's Yenikapi Square featured a young man wearing a bright red polo shirt. The man's right hand is raised up in the air, his five fingers outstretched in a gesture that says enough. He faces an army tank whose gun points ominously above him, in the direction of the viewer whose safety the protester protects. To my eyes the message that accompanies the image seemed anti-militarist, even a tad socialist: "The triumph belongs to democracy, and the squares belong to the people."
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